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Dispersal of Musk Thistle (Carduus nutans) Seeds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Lane M. Smith II  and
L. T. Kok
Lane M. Smith II
Affiliation:
Dep. of Entomol., VPI & SU, Blacksburg, VA 24061
L. T. Kok
Affiliation:
Dep. of Entomol., VPI & SU, Blacksburg, VA 24061
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Abstract

Dispersal studies of musk thistle (Carduus nutans L = C. thoermeri Weinmann) seeds by wind were performed to determine the percentage of seeds removed from the vicinity of the plant where the seeds originated. For the different wind velocities tested (up to 5.6 m/s) less than 1% of the seeds were blown further than 100 m. Most seeds were deposited within 50 m of the point of release. A Gaussian model of seed dispersal based on experimentally determined parameters and published data adequately described these results.

Keywords

Seed dispersal by windGaussian plume model
Type
Weed Biology and Ecology
Information
Weed Science , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1984 , pp. 120 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © 1984 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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